- “A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
- “Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.”
- “By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”
- “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
- “Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”
- “For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.”
- “I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”
- “I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”
- “Ideas shape the course of history.”
- “If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.”
- “In the long run we are all dead.”
- “It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.”
- “It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.”
- “Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.”
- “Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”
- “Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”
- “Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.”
- “Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”
- “The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”
- “I am a quick study – I can memorize a script in an hour – but I can’t remember a name three seconds. I’ve even forgotten my wife’s name on occasion.”
- “I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.”
- “I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.”
- “I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn’t until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.”
- “I’ve been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That’s a joke, but not by much.”
- “It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.”
- “Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.”
- “Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.”
- “I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport.”
- “I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.”
- “I won’t quit skating until I am physically unable.”
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- “I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I’m going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.”
- “I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.”
- “I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.”
- “I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.”
- “I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.”
- “I’ve never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.”
- “If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn’t happen with dogs. They’re different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.”
- “It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.”
- “It’s a character that I always found really likable. I’m fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.”
- “Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it’s my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.”
- “There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.”
- “We are now integrated into American society and I don’t like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it’s going to pass. It’s not like that anymore.”
- “Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.”
- “I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
- “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
- “Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.”
- “Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
- “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”
- “Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”
- “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
- “A revolution is not a bed of roses.”
- “Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.”
- “How can we help President Obama?”
- “I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.”
- “I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.”
- “I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.”
- “I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”
- “I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”
- “I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.”
- “I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.”
- “I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.”
- “Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.”
- “More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.”
- “No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!”
- “North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.”
- “The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.”
- “The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.”
- “The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.”
- “They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”
- “And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.”
- “And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn’t necessarily given to me, and that people didn’t necessarily think that I would be able to do.”
- “And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I’d be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.”
- “At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.”
- “At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.”
- “Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.”
- “Hey, I’m a girl, and we like to play dress-up.”
- “I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.”
- “I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.”
- “I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.”
- “I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don’t look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don’t think of them as like Charlize Theron films.”
- “I guess there are very few actors that I’ve worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you’ll have that chance and, if we didn’t do Italian Job together, there wouldn’t be another one that could be right.”
- “I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.”
- “I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it’s hard for me not to. I guess I’ve been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.”
- “I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it’s maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.”
- “I like what I do, and I’m very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don’t have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.”
- “I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
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- “I mean, I’m new but I’ve always been very interested in film making process and I’ve been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested – that the producer part of me was natural.”
- “I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.”
- “I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.”
- “A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It’s a short letter – all she said was, “Hey, since it’s harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.” I was like, «Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!»”
- “A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.”
- “Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming Hairsray. It’s so weird because I grew up watching her.”
- “Being known for musicals is a great thing.”
- “From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.”
- “Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.”
- “High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.”
- “Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I’m gay, then I think I’ll be fine. I can handle it.”
- “I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we’ve been talking, I think that’s really fun.”
- “I grew up being into sports and I wasn’t trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I’m the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it’s always, «OK, one more take for Zac.»”
- “I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.”
- “I think if you’re fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk… why do that? I don’t understand how some people would want fame so bad that they’d go out and get negative attention to earn it.”
- “I think it’s fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.”
- “I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.”
- “I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don’t see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.”
- “I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.”
- “I’ll never try to put on a fake image. I’m just Zac.”
- “I’m a guy, but I’m not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I’m watching a movie, I’ll sometimes shed a tear, especially ‘Moulin Rouge’.”
- “I’m very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog – It’s the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!”
- “I’ve been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!”
- “They didn’t let me out, they just gave me a day pass.”
- “Anger is merely depression without enthusiasm.”
- “When God made man, she was only joking.”
- “I don’t drink; it dulls the drugs.”
- “God must love stupid people- he made so many!”
- “I like children. Properly cooked.”
- “Mirrors can’t talk. And lucky for you they can’t laugh.”
- “I wish I could kill the sexiest person alive but suicide is a crime!”
- “Adults are just kids with money.”
- “TGIF- Thank God I’m female.”
- “Someday your prince will come. Mine took a wrong turn and is too stubborn to ask for directions.”
- “Keep honking! I’m reloading!”
- “Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.”
- “Do unto others before they do unto you.”
- “Nothing is illegal until you get caught.”
- “Be nice to your kids, they’ll chose your nursing home.”
- “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.”
- “If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.”
- “When I want your opinion, I’ll beat it out of you.”
- “Men are idiots and I married their king.”
- “You can pick your nose and pick your friends but you can’t wipe your friends on the couch.”
- “Behind every good man, there is a good woman. And behind every good woman, there’s another man looking at her butt.”
- “I see dumb people.”
- “Follow your dreams… except the one when you’re at school in your underwear.”
- “If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.”
- “Behind every successful man, there is a surprised woman.”
- “The more I know about men, the more I admire dogs.”
- “They keep saying the right person will come along; I think a truck hit mine.”
- “Death is life’s way of telling you you’re fired.”
- “If it weren’t for people like you, nobody else would have an above average IQ.”
- “Who died and made you Darth Vader?”
- “Too many freaks, not enough circus’s!”
- “Some people are only alive because it’s illegal to kill.”
- “I took an IQ test and the results were negative.”
- “I may be fat, but you’re ugly – I can lose weight!”
- “I’m not littering…. I’m donating to the earth.”
- “If you don’t like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk.”
- “DARE to keep cops off doughnuts.”
- “Your child may be an honor student, but you’re still an idiot.”
- “Doctors say I have a multiple personality, but we don’t agree with that.”
- “Don’t judge a book by its movie.”
- “Getting on your feet requires getting off your butt.”
- “My child sold your HONOR STUDENT the answers to the test.”
- “If you have something to say, raise your hand. Then place it over your mouth.”
- “Objects in mirror are dumber than they appear.”
- “I’m the kind of person my parents want me to stay away from.”
- “Boys will be boys … so will a lot of middle aged men.”
- “Why do people say “no offense” when they’re about to offend someone?”
- “A people free to choose will always choose peace.”
- “A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?”
- “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.”
- “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
- “All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”
- “Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.”
- “Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.”
- “But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”
- “Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”
- “Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
- “Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”
- “Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.”
- “Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.”
- “Facts are stubborn things.”
- “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
- “Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”
- “Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.”
- “Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”
- “Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”
- “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”